Volo Auto Museum Debuts Famous Celebrity Car Collection In Chicago's Thanksgiving Day Parade
10 November 2000
Volo Auto Museum Debuts Famous Celebrity Car Collection In Chicago's Thanksgiving Day Parade
VOLO, Ill., Nov. 10 The Volo Auto Museum is inaugurating
its new Celebrity Car Division by bringing fabulous cars to the Field's Jingle
Elf Parade(R) held in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day. It's a lineup of six cars
that kept company with some famous people -- or entertained us as celebrities
in their own right.
For openers... Holy Horsepower, it's a brand new Batmobile, from the 1966
TV series with Adam West. And it's tricked out with all the incredible crime
fighting gimmicks that made the shows and the car so much fun.
And what could be a better reminder of Christmas Past than Natalie Wood --
and her stirring performance as a child in that great Christmas, classic,
"Miracle on 34th Street". And to celebrate, Volo Auto Museum is bringing her
car to the party. It's a flawless 1963 Buick Riviera, purchased new by
Natalie Wood, just days after her divorce from Robert Wagner, whom she
remarried later. The 1963 Riviera was perhaps the most elegant personal car
design of the decade.
Another 60's car, one that became a movie star, is the 1960 Buick LeSabre
that was the focal point of the 1982 movie, "Right Of Way", starring Jimmy
Stewart and Bette Davis. Both stars, quite elderly at the time, had never
made a picture together. In this motion picture, the Buick, in it's starring
role, dramatic in its striking black and red mirror finish, was the instrument
for carrying the dying couple's suicide pact. Historical Note. Bette Davis,
being Bette Davis, was the first, and only, person to ever use the ashtray.
And now for the Sports. Chicago style! Michael Jordan's sports car, a 1993
Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 405 horsepower LT5. It was the first one built --
made as a gift for the Number One player in professional basketball history.
This 40th anniversary Corvette was built exclusively for Michael Jordan.
Finished in ruby red with a matching ruby leather interior, it is one of only
220 built.
Another star of the Chicago Bulls dynasty, and like Michael, Scottie
Pippen also ruled the road with his choice, a stunning 1988 Porsche 930 Turbo
Cabrio. Custom blended paint matched the Bulls logo. The leather interior
was created to Scottie's specs. And the $10,000 stereo system has the power
to blow your hat off.
Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were Class all the way -- and so were
their cars. Beautiful, fast and capable of fantastic performance.
That description also fits Steve Kinser like a racing glove. Voted the
Greatest Sprint Car Driver of the 20th Century by his peers, Kinser has won an
incredible 435 "A" feature events in the Pennzoil World of Outlaws series --
and an awesome 15 National Drivers Championships in this highly competitive
form of racing. The Volo Auto Museum is parading a special duplicate of
Kinser's Winged Sprint Car, built by Kinser's own racing team. Chevy 350 V8
with a Turbo 400 automatic Transmission. And here's the kicker ... it's
street legal.
These Celebrity cars and other Starpower cars are among the 250
collectible cars on exhibit and for sale at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo,
Illinois. The Volo complex also features 3 Antique Malls with some 300
dealers. Located near the junctions of highways 12 and 120, about 50 miles
northwest of Chicago, the Volo Auto Museum is open 7 days a week, 10 to 5, and
on-line any time at volocars.com .
It is a car lovers mecca and an antique buff's nirvana.